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Thursday, 20 November 2014

Here’s What Competitive Eating Does to Your Body

Eating champions expand their stomachs far beyond normal size

The men were asked to consume as many hot dogs as they could in 12 minutes. The researchers noted that after eating the hot dogs, the competitive eater’s stomach “appeared as a massively distended, food-filled sac occupying most of the upper abdomen.” There was also “little or no gastric peristalsis,” the squeezing motion that normally helps the stomach break down food.Chestnut is now 30 years old and weighs 230 pounds—not an especially large man. In fact, many serious competitive eaters appear to be relatively thin and healthy.

So how do they eat that many hot dogs and stay healthy? And is it safe?

Not much research has been done about competitive eating. But several doctors from the University of Pennsylvania did an experiment for a National Geographic special, the results of which were published in theJournal of Roentgenology. They wanted to find out what happened to competitive eaters’ stomachs, so they compared two men: one champion eater and one non-competitive-eating man—the control—who simply had a “healthy appetite.”

Marc Levine, one of the study’s authors and a gastrointestinal radiologist the University of Pennsylvania, said he was amazed by the amount of food that fit in the speed eater’s stomach.

“This was not some inherent skill he had since he was a child,” says Levine. “For many months, he would practice by eating larger and larger volumes of food. … He was able to overcome the satiety reflex, and once he did that, the stomach overcame the peristalsis activity so it was able to accept an unlimited amount of food.”

The satiety reflex is what people experience when they eat enough food to trigger the neural pathways in the brain that tell the body it is full. It’s also what triggers people to vomit.

Major League Eating—the world body that oversees all professional eating contests—places a high priority on safety, according to MLE chair George Shea. Emergency medical technicians are present at all official contests and there’s safety page on its website.

“We discourage anyone doing contests without emergency medical technicians,” says George Shea, chair of MLE. “We keep the duration of the contest short. It’s in the sweet spot so they’re not stuffing their faces too much but not going too long.”

While Shea says he doesn’t know of anyone who’s ever choked during an official eating competition, other competitive eating injuries have been recorded.

And while no one knows exactly how stretching their stomachs will affect competitive eaters years down the line, Levine and his team predicted some scary consequences.

If the stomach stretches enough that it can’t get back to its original size, they predict this could potentially cause “intractable nausea and vomiting, necessitating a partial or total gastrectomy to relieve their symptoms and restore their ability to eat.”

But at least for now the champions are trained to avoid getting sick. For other people, Shea has this advice: “Don’t try this at home.”

About Me

Hello,
I have always had a great deal of difficulty with my weight, For a time, I was spending nearly 2 hours running daily to keep down my weight, performing full body exercises and thousands of crunches (wherever watching TV) just to maintain a healthy weight. Eventually, the excessive activity caused me to injure myself and then I was unable to run. The fat piled on slowly at first then quickly.
Probably, what hurt more than the injury was the comments people said about me. Day after day someone would say something derogatory about my weight - as if making me feel worse could possibly make them feel better!
This eventually got to me. It made me look for other ways to lose fat without relying on hours of cardio training. Today, I find it much easier to maintain a healthy weight without putting myself at great risk of injury and without spending hours exercising. I know there are many people out there who struggle with weight issues and by sharing what has helped me may also help you on your exciting journey to a new slimmer you. I know what it feels like to be at the end of all the teasing and pranks so look forward to sharing any helpful suggestions with you.